FirePro S7150 vs Radeon HD 6970

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro S7150 and Radeon HD 6970, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the FirePro S7150 stacks up against Radeon HD 6970, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  FirePro S7150 Radeon HD 6970
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 550 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6970 has 266% more power consumption, than FirePro S7150.
  • FirePro S7150 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon HD 6970 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • FirePro S7150 has 6 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6970.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • FirePro S7150 is build with GCN 3.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 6970 - with Terascale 2.
  • FirePro S7150 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6970 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6970 is 26 mm longer, than FirePro S7150.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro S7150 is 3625 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 14−16
ultra / 1080p 21−24 9−10
QHD / 1440p 16−18 3−4
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 30−35
medium / 1080p 40−45 18−20
The average gaming FPS of FirePro S7150 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 140% more, than Radeon HD 6970.

Full Specs

  FirePro S7150 Radeon HD 6970
Architecture GCN 3.0 Terascale 2
Code name Tonga Cayman
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 1 February 2016 14 December 2010
Pipelines 2048 1536
Core clock speed 920 MHz
Boost Clock 880 MHz
Transistor count 5,000 million 2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 117.8 84.48
Floating-point performance 3,763 gflops 2,703.4 gflops
Length 241 mm 267 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB/s
DirectX 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 6.3 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 273 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
Design reference
CrossFire +
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